Job 13
1 Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
4 For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
6 Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?
8 Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
10 He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
13 Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
14 Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
16 He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
17 Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
18 Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
20 But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
23 Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
27 Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.
And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —
28 Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
